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SECTION 1.
AREA AND GENERAL, DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICT.
Typography
The area, of the District is 11,055 acres. It lies upon
the' southern and western slopes of the spur of high land
running from the Barnet District and jutting out into the
Weald of Harrow.
The dividing lines of the five parishes run approximately
north and .south, the northern portion of the parishes resting
on the hill and the southern lying in. the valley.
The highest point in the District, 502 feet above Ordnance
datum, is on the Watford Road at the Hertfordshire
boundary. The lowest point, about 150 feet, is to be found
at the south-east corner of Pinner Parish.
The, District is distinctly a residential one, being somewhat
heavily timbered, and has a very small acreage of arable
land. The agricultural portion of it is laid down in grass,
and the chief agricultural product is hay.
Running from east to wiest, the parishes' oome in the
following order:—Edgware, Little Stanmore, Great Stanmore,
Harrow Weald, Pinner.
Geology
The District lies upon the great London clay bed, which
is capped on the higher land by patches of gravel of varying
thickness. In some places, notably in the north-east corner
of Harrow Weald, the subsoil water rises to within a foot or
eighteen inches of the surface of the gravel.
Public Open
Spaces
Besides the Stanmore Cricket Ground (seven acres), Stanmore
Marsh (14 acres), the Little Common, Stanmore (6£
acres), and the Pinner Beds (10 acres), the principal oommon
lands are those of Harrow Weald and Great Stanmore. The
area of the former is 34¾ acres, of the latter 121½ acres.